NYS Assembly. A.3676 (Glick)/S.2487 (LaValle) passed both Chambers of the Legislature; now awaits Governors’ signature. Amends section 210-a of the education law to provide that the graduate record examination (GRE) or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement will not apply to certified teachers and school administrators who already hold a graduate degree when applying for a graduate-level teacher program.

NEW YORK CITYNew School Center for New York City Affairs. What’s Needed for ‘3-K for All’ and Child Care Centers to Work and Play Well Together? These disparities make it nearly impossible for some EarlyLearn centers to hold on to certified teachers, creating what the New York City Public Advocate’s office has described as a “troublesome hierarchy in which the teachers who work with the youngest and poorest children are paid the least.”

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1) Ending the Curse of Remedial MathAnd a group of New York City high school teachers are, in a pilot program, being trained in CUNY Start’s model of teaching.2) For Children With Autism, No More Being HushedTo devise it, she teamed up with Shirley Cohen, a professor of special education at Hunter College. (Nest teachers are required to take two graduate-level courses at Hunter focused on teaching children with autism.)